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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass



There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20 There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. ~Louis Kronenberger



If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~James Madison



A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." ~Karen Williams



Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~Albert Einstein



Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. ~William Wordsworth



To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion



Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. ~Edwin Keith



The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct. ~Samuel J. Meltzer



October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain



I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. ~Henry David Thoreau



Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." ~S.I. Hayakawa



Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani



The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours. ~Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler's Bible



More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. ~Linda Sunshine



If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ~Emerson M. Pugh



The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~H.L. Mencken